A cure for persistent cookies

Cookies are small bundles of information stored on a computer's hard drive. News to me.

I think of cookies as small bundles of butter and flour stored in a tin and downloaded, frequently.

Apparently cookies do annoying things like traipse around the Internet, snooping. Which is why many a savvy consumer installs a cookie blocker.

Denying access to cookies, or to certain cookies. A sound idea over the holidays, when cookies appear on every platform — work, school, gym and dentist's lair. The internal browser can't help but find gingerboy, raspberry thumbprint, coconut bar, almond horn and wintermint bark. A condition the search engine terms "persistent cookies."

Cookie-handling instructions begin: Delete all cookies previously installed. If only! Then, set the browser to accept only good cookies.

Like Danielle's chocolate smooches. They're truffles, in cookie form. They melt on contact. Each little lump is so chocolate-suffused and butter-blessed that no user could consider it a nuisance. Frankly, any browser directed to block this cookie would exercise artificial intelligence and refuse.